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Signal stalker and Preprogrammed searches work the same way. If the group is off and you turn it on, it will display the search range that you just turned on. Pretty neat! The Tune feature could be useful as well. You press "Tune" and you can manually enter any frequency within the scanners range and the scanner will go directly to that frequency. You can un-pause the scanner and it will begin a search from that point. Or you can press the up or down arrows and manually step through the frequencies.

You can also be holding on a frequency that you have programmed into the scanner and press function then tune and go directly to the tune feature at the frequency you were holding on. This is yet another cool feature of this scanner. I love how the Weather Alert Priority works. You assign your local NOAA weather frequency as your priority channel which is simple to do. Then when you want to turn on Wx Alert Priority, simply turn on Priority.

The scanner then checks for the Hz tone every 3 to 4 seconds. It works too! A few severe storms just rolled through here, I used the Wx Alert Priority on the 97 while using my other scanners to monitor other agencies and the 97 worked great. The 97 alerted me of a Tornado Warning for my county way before our tornado sirens were set off. I can see how some won't like this because it does tie up the Priority channel but for me, I really like it.

I have never heard my Uniden's do this. But on the 97 I was listening to NOAA and a Tornado Warning was issued for a neighboring county and it displayed "Tornado Warning" on the screen as well as set an audible alarm. I really like this! One thing that does bug me a little is if you are in SAME standby mode, you can't press Scan to scan your programmed channels.

You have to press Function then Wx to go back to the Weather Scan mode, then press Scan to resume scanning. The scanner uses 4 AA batteries. To me that is a little excessive but I suppose it helps with battery life.

I use Energizer mAh rechargeables. I haven't had a chance to give a good estimate of battery life and will report back here once I have made a good evaluation. But for a general idea, I have been using a set of 's at the time of this review. I got almost 12 hours out of one charge on a set of 's. This was with moderate traffic with backlight used about 6 hours out of the I thing it gives the scanner a cleaner look and it works well for me.

I love the analog squelch and volume. The squelch on the 97, you turn it when receiving a weak signal and you can acutally adjust the squelch to a point where it actaully blocks the signal or will receive the weaker signals. The isn't like this at this point. The squelch is either fully open nothing but static or it is on and seems unadjustable to me.

I downloaded the Win97 Software. I was surprised at how easy this software is to navigate and operate. You can use the software free for 30 days. Don Starr, states on his site that you should use the software for the 30 day trial period to see if you like it. I am sure you will. It has all the functions you need plus many extras all in an easy to understand and navigate format.

It reminds me a little of ARC software but the Win software definately has it's own attributes! The software allows you to tweak things you couldn't without it. Like at what voltage the low battery beep begins. That is just cool. Also adjust the backlight time settings, and a few other tweaks. Same goes for the Signal Stalker function. Of course you can add and edit all of the scanners channels and all the Talk Group ID's. Win97 supports copy and paste, because I copied almost all of my information from my UASD program and pasted into Win You can do neat things like justify all the text tags either to the left, center, or right.

Also you can check for duplicate frequencies. Release the mouse button. Select "Create shortcut here". You can now run Win97 by double-clicking on the desktop shortcut. If you create a shortcut to Win97 e. If you don't, Win97 will not be able to find its Help file. To set the "Start in" field:. If you have difficulties using the Help file i. EXE file. This will install the Help Viewer program. It is distributed as a time-limited day trial version.

It is highly recommended that you use the software for several days with the PRO or PRO scanner to ensure that Win97 performs to your satisfaction.

It appears that data that used to be in the sites' "zoneNumber" field has been moved to the new "rfss" field. This should improve import times. This version no longer requires my RRLib. DLL file or Microsoft's. NET runtime. Insert blank channel when importing multiple sites into a single bank like Win96 does. Changed MHz step size to Hz to match version 1.

Limit Search ranges, etc. Added "License Key It will display your registration information. This might be useful if you wanted to manually or programmatically edit such things as "display" or "description" fields before actually importing into a bank. Note: this build contains some in-progress conventional frequency import code. The Radio Shack Pro is a high-performance, extended-coverage scanner has the ability to scan both trunked and conventional channels at the same time.

It cannot decode digital trunking. Program up to 1, frequencies in 10 banks of This allows you to organize frequencies for easier access. Triple-trunking lets you follow a signal in virtually any market that uses an analog trunking system although those systems have been largely phased out.